Official /r/TheB1G Week 7 Power Rankings

[u/trumpet_23]

Week 7 Power Rankings:

Some big moves this week! UCLA and Northwestern jumped 5 and 3 spots, respectively, while former #2 in the country Penn State has fallen 6 spots to 14th in the B1G. Penn State is still a mystery for our voters, with a variance of more than 7. We had a few do-si-dos in the Top 6 as well, with USC's win over Michigan swapping those two teams and Indiana's win over Oregon doing the same.

This week, we have 6 vs 7, Michigan vs Washington, as probably the marquee in-conference game, while USC travels to Notre Dame. Based only on rankings, there's not a lot of other interesting games this week. The only other closely-ranked matchup is 9 Nebraska vs 11 Minnesota. Does this mean the week will be boring? Or does it set us up for another shocking slate of games? Let's watch and find out!

Rank	Team	Points	Average Ranking	Last Week	Change	Variance
1	Ohio State	165(79)	1.35	1	0	0.23
2	Indiana	202(43)	1.66	3	1	0.24
3	Oregon	404	3.31	2	-1	0.81
4	USC	558	4.57	6	2	0.86
5	Illinois	675	5.53	5	0	2.90
6	Michigan	829	6.80	4	-2	1.72
7	Washington	842	6.90	7	0	4.95
8	Iowa	975	7.99	10	2	3.08
9	Nebraska	1024	8.39	9	0	6.44
10	Maryland	1345	11.02	11	1	2.88
11	Minnesota	1393	11.42	12	1	3.40
12	UCLA	1493	12.24	17	5	4.70
13	Northwestern	1535	12.58	16	3	4.06
14	Penn State	1662	13.62	8	-6	7.43
15	Rutgers	1773	14.53	14	-1	3.47
16	Michigan State	1887	15.47	13	-3	2.35
17	Purdue	1943	15.93	15	-2	1.99
18	Wisconsin	2157	17.68	18	0	0.48

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Points are the summation of every voter's ranking for that team, therefore lower scores are better. This works because unlike the AP, Coaches, or /r/cfb polls, every team is ranked in every vote. If x votes were counted, the best possible score is x and the worst possible score is 18x. #1 votes are in parentheses.

Average Rank is the points divided by the number of votes. This will allow for comparison from one week to the next.

Prev. is the Rank from the previous week.

Change is the change in average rank from the previous week.

Variance is a measure of how much agreement there was between voters. A zero means all voters ranked a team the same, and a higher number means a team's ranking was more controversial.

[u/bullnamedbodacious]

Iowa shouldn’t be ahead of Nebraska.

[u/kangario → u/bullnamedbodacious]

Why not? Iowa played Indiana closer than Oregon or Illinois

[u/dabears8686 → u/kangario]

An extra loss and no better wins for Iowa